Fluorescence Lifetime Microscope Offers Picosecond Resolution
Scientists at Riken research institute in Wako, Japan, have developed a fluorescence lifetime imaging microscope that incorporates a Kerr cell to offer picosecond temporal and micrometer spatial resolution. The apparatus, suggested Tahei Tahara, chief scientist at the institute and director of its molecular spectroscopy laboratory, may be used in conjunction with a fluorescence upconversion technique to achieve femtosecond resolution, enabling users to investigate samples by what he and his...
Photonics Spectra, November 2005